Dirt Diversity
Agricultural methods can keep the diverse organisms in soil healthy.
Zombie Worm
The zombie worm feeds off the oil in whale bones on the ocean floor.
Artificial Wetlands
Water hazards on golf courses can filter out pollutants and pesticides.
Grubs
Using grubs to reduce manure on farms, and then converting them into animal feed
Dirt Appreciation
Creatures that live underground prevent the world from being a stinking cesspool.
Tsunami Barriers
Loss of mangroves and coral reefs probably made the December 26 Asian tsunami worse.
Mass Extinction
An asteroid probably did not cause a mass extinction 250 million years ago.
Magnetic Pole Flip
Why does earth's magnetic field reverse polarity? (Currents of molten iron flowing in the core)
Tiger Roundup
Counting endangered Siberian tigers in Russia, and determining tiger sub-species with DNA analysis.
Day After Tomorrow
The movie ÒThe Day After TomorrowÓ changed viewers' understanding of global climate change.
Climate Roundup
The Arctic ice sheet has shrunk more than usual, and sequencing the genome of diatoms.
Fewer Fish
Fishing by taking out only the big fish cuts yield in half in just four generations.
Public Health Roundup
USing satellites to hunt for clean water supplies, and access to antiretrovirals has cut HIV transmission in half in Taiwan.
Changing Fish
Fishing not only reduces numbers of fish but causes evolutionary changes.
Antibacterial Sludge
The antibacterial compound triclocarban is found in organic sludge used as fertilizer.
Drugs in the Environment
Medicines that we take end up in the environment, and those drugs can disrupt the hormones of wild animals.
Earth’s Vital Organs
Earth has vital organs -- critical systems -- that interact in complicated and unexpected ways.
Earth Simulator
The world's fastest supercomputer is being used to model earth systems.
Ocean Census
The Census of Marine Life has found many new species near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Forest Plants
Harvesting of moss for sale on the black market, and selling an ecologically friendly chocolate bar.